stupid spamassassin tricks

[Scot L. Harris]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:59, Craig White wrote:
> slugging through an awkward issue with spamassassin on my home server.
> 
> I am using fetchmail to get mail from my ISP - who in essence, has
> already accepted delivery.
> 
> I have an email in my box which fetchmail keeps retrieving and
> spamassassin is rejecting it - which is kind of an endless loop.
> 
> Specifically, I am running spamassassin & spamass-milter (milter via
> sendmail).
> 
> I currently have the following options to spamd set...
> 
> # cat /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin
> SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -a -m5 -H -L -x -u smmsp"
> 
> hoping that the '-L' option would serve the purpose...it hasn't
> 
> Any suggestions? Right now, it is only 1 email but these things have a
> way of snowballing.

I am sure others will have already commented but spamassassin does not
reject anything.  It simply scores the incoming message.  You must use
other tools to reject based on that score.  In this case probably
spamass-milter is doing the reject on the message.  


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